Day: January 28, 2017

Recalls this week: notebook batteries, electric scooters

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Recalls this week: notebook batteries, electric scooters

More than 100,000 notebook batteries are being recalled as part of an expanded recall because they can overheat, posing a fire hazard.
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NAACP's Rev. Barber Urges Black Publishers to Take on Trump

William Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP and leader of a movement in that state to overturn voter identification laws, told publishers of
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Chris Wondolowski among 5 cuts from US soccer roster

CARSON, Calif. (AP) — San Jose forward Chris Wondolowski is among five players cut from the U.S. roster for Sunday's exhibition against Serbia at
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Golf Capsules

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Golf Capsules

Woods at least kept good company. Jason Day, the No. 1 player in the world, again struggled to make cuts and shot a 74 to miss the cut for the first
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'Alone Here' no more: Professor Orner a finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award

Creative Writing Professor Peter Orner is one of 30 writers nationwide named finalists for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award. His acclaimed
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Yokota hosts effective writing course

Members of an effective writing course discuss how to best write a bullet at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Jan. 27, 2017. The course provided members with
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Feds: Arrests in scam banking on 'Hamilton,' Adele shows

Joseph Meli leaves Manhattan federal court Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 in New York, after he was freed on $1 million bail in a Ponzi scheme case.
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Home Entertainment Roxane Gay Snatches Book from Publisher Due to Release Alt-Right Editor …

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Home Entertainment Roxane Gay Snatches Book from Publisher Due to Release Alt-Right Editor …

Roxane Gay is taking a stand by removing her book from publisher Simon & Schuster, which will release a book by racist and anti-feminist Milo
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James Douglas Black Found Guilty Of Murder

James Douglas Black has been found guilty of murder for the 2012 slayings of Cortney A. Thompson and Terrance L. Stewart. He was sentenced to
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Arsenal manager Wenger banned from touchline for 4 games

FILE – In this Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 file photo, Arsenal's manager Arsene Wenger gestures during the English Premier League soccer match
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PubTech Connect: Meet Ian Schafer, Digital Advertising Wiz

Use It Well” in which he will offer strategies for how publishers can utilize Snapchat and other growing platforms for content marketing and distribution.
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This Week's Bestsellers: January 30, 2017

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This Week's Bestsellers: January 30, 2017

Veronica Roth hit the jackpot with her Divergent trilogy, selling millions of copies and spawning a series of movie adaptations. Her new novel, Carve
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Soaring textbook prices eat into parents' wallets

I will search the shops for an older version of the original book first. … Manzar Naqvi, a book publisher says: “Every year book prices being used in
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Chistopher Kimball Returns to Cookbook Publishing

Christopher Kimball's new multimedia company, Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, will begin publishing cookbooks this fall. The cofounder of
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Message from the publishers: Town Criers late this week

Monday was a snow day and we closed. Not enough employees could get to the office. Because of the postal rate change Sunday, the software
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Paintings, photos from Selfridge air base part of exhibit

The historical exhibit is part of the art center's Michigan Annual exhibit and comes as the base in Macomb County's Harrison Township celebrates its
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Rowling's 'Fantastic Beasts' and Narrator Redmayne Land at Audible

Audible has announced that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling (writing as magizoologist Newt Scamander) and narrated by
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BC: 15 best books of the week, January 28

Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family's Journey — Margriet Ruurs, illustrated by Nizar Ali Badr (Orca Book Publishers). Embers: One Ojibway's
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Tiny town's power surge fries computers, appliances, siding

The 911 calls started pouring in just after noon in the tiny western Pennsylvania town of Brookville. The electrical meter is on fire. The house siding is
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Regardless of scale and technology, two major players dominate digital ads.

He recently calculated that, despite record digital ad spend, there was only 1% growth among publishers other than the big two. “[It's] essentially a 0%
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Had DIGITAL Comic Books Hurt PRINT? Retailers, Publishers Talk State of the Business 2017

More than five years later, the digital comic book industry seems to have little to no effect on print comics, according to retailers and publishers we
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Spring 2017 Children's Announcements: Publishers SZ

If I Were a Whale by Shelley Gill, illus. by Erik Brooks (Feb. 21, hardcover, $9.99, ISBN 978-1-63217-104-7) teaches about whales in the Pacific,
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Java wizard of e-Publishing future

Literatum, our online publishing platform, is the only software that integrates UI/UX design, content management, semantic tagging, subscription
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Book Review: 'Killing the Messenger' Skewers Hillary Haters

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Book Review: 'Killing the Messenger' Skewers Hillary Haters

David Brock goes after the American Taliban hate machine in 'Killing the Messenger: The Right-Wing Plot to Derail Hillary and Hijack Your
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Super Bowl ticket prices down and could drop even more

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady responds to a reporter's question during an NFL football team media availability, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017
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List Down

Beall, a research librarian at the University of Colorado Denver, had developed a list of thousands of open-access journals and publishers that he
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Seven Trade Catalogues

by [Publishing History]: Reynal & Hitchcock. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948. Seven volumes. Printed wrappers. A trace of rust to staples, first
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